Rajinikanth hits out at AIADMK for protests against Vijay-starrer Sarkar

Desiree Waters

Meanwhile, the Madras High Court ordered the Tamil Nadu police not to arrest "Sarkar" movie Director A.R. Murugadoss who had approached it seeking anticipatory bail.

He particularly pointed out at the government backing Vijay when his film "Mersal" ran into trouble with the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) ahead of its release previous year. The ruling AIADMK party has opposed some of the scenes in the film and filed a complaint in the Madras High Court.

The ruling AIADMK was up in arms against Tamil film star Vijay's Diwali release "Sarkar" for its reported reference to former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, besides the alleged depiction of certain government schemes in a bad light.

However, recently in an interview, TTV Dhinakaran revealed that Komalavalli is not the birth name of Jayalalithaa.

"While we don't know how many scenes have been deleted, we can say for sure that the objectionable scene on mixer and grinder being burnt has been removed", they said.

Vijay's recently-released film Sarkar, which hit the screens on November 6, is mired in controversy.

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The removal of the scenes prompted Raju to declare that the "issue has come to an end" and that the AIADMK would not hold anymore protests.

"The new Sarkar won't be one that hurts sentiments". A government that can't face criticism can go off the tangent. State ministers had called for the deletion of these scenes and threatened to take the legal route against the film, even as protests erupted in different parts of the state. It led to the demand of arrest of filmmaker AR Murugadoss.

Chennai: Superstar Rajinikanth on Friday tweeted in support of actor Vijay's latest Tamil film "Sarkar".

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